Carmelo Anthony

Anthony was born in 1984 to a Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother in New York. After his father died when Anthony was only 2 years old, his mother packed up ship for Baltimore, MD, taking then-8-year-old Anthony and his three older siblings to a neighborhood which would later be featured as the setting for the HBO series The Wire. Anthony's rough-and-tumble early years were countered with early success on the basketball court, earning regional awards for his athletic play at Towson Catholic High School. Anthony's mother, Mary, had long pushed for him to focus on schoolwork, hoping for an escape from the dangerous Baltimore neighborhood. But it wasn't until he had... Continue Bio >>